There are a variety of reasons why a policy owner may choose an increasing rather
than the level death benefit.
If you can answer no to these questions
than a level death benefit final expense insurance policy may be the best fit for you.
Not exact matches
Lastly, he shows a
level of humanity when he puts Mance Rayder out of his misery rather
than letting him slowly burn to
death.
A large 2014 study of more
than 25,000 people with heart disease found that putting people on long - acting doses of vitamin B3 to raise their
levels of «good,» or HDL, cholesterol didn't reduce the incidence of heart attacks, strokes, or
deaths.
The songs on this two - cd set are arranged thematically rather
than chronologically and reflect many of the recurring themes of Cash's oeuvre: love, sin, redemption, life,
death... Adding to the intimacy
level, many of the songs feature spoken introductions by Cash, as if he were introducing the songs to an audience, in which he talks about his history with the song, how he learned it, or wrote it and, more personally, why he feels such a deep connection with the composition.
This season of This Is Us maintains its
level of evocative, emotional storylines, which is why we're still drawn in despite more
than 29 episodes of wondering about Jack's
death.
If hunger (responsible for more
deaths every year
than war or disease and the loss of more lives
than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined) is not attributable solely to inadequate production of food, but rather insufficient availability of food, why isn't more being done to reduce the shameful
levels of food loss occurring in developing countries?
However, Pep Guardiola's side were to be denied at the
death, as Thiago Silva leapt highest to head the Rossoneri
level more
than 90 minutes after they had opened the scoring.
After hospital transfers were reclassified as belonging to the planned out - of - hospital birth category, the rate of fetal
death was higher (though not quite reaching the
level of significance) among out - of - hospital births
than among in - hospital births (2.4 vs. 1.2
deaths per 1000 deliveries, P = 0.05)(Table 3).
The introduction of infant formula to babies» diets changes the infants» gut microbiome, thus affecting the response of the infant immune system to pathogens.47 - 51 A greater amount of natural - killer cells, suggesting a more mature immune system, have been found in breastfed infants
than in formula - fed infants.52 In addition, pH
level in the stomach of breastfed children is better for the promotion of the protein - lipid α - lactalbumin (termed HAMLET), which induces apoptosislike
death in tumor cells.51, 53
Poor diet is now the biggest underlying cause of disease and
death globally — bigger
than tobacco, alcohol and physical inactivity — and early child feeding plays a key role in building and reinforcing healthy and unhealthy food preferences so its crucial that sugar
levels are lowered.
Within these vulnerable road user groups Britain has a higher
level of
deaths per head — at 13 per million people —
than Sweden and the Netherlands, despite no evidence of higher activity or exposure to risk.
The criminal narco - conflict in Mexico, for example, is the source of higher
death rates
than most wars, and violence in the favelas of Brazil can reach battlefield
level.
There were more
deaths in custody last year
than ever before, staffing
levels have seen deep cuts, there's a shortage of places and violence against prison staff is up sharply.
Japan's fertility rate is below replacement
level, i.e. there are more
deaths than births.
«To gauge what is at stake when corners are cut we need look no further
than the cracked rails on the east coast mainline and the continuing tide of
deaths on
level crossings and out on the tracks.
This latest plan, unveiled less
than a month before the one - year mark of Eric Garner's
death and one week before a video of a cop punching a Harlem man made the news, will likely seek to achieve two things: to create a larger pool of informants, and to utilize public complaints to argue that Bratton's Broken Windows theory — the aggressive policing of low -
level offenses to deter more serious crime — is what New Yorkers still want.
Deaths and cases of substance use disorders linked to opioid painkillers have risen to epidemic levels nationally, with more than 14,000 deaths from prescription opioids in 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preve
Deaths and cases of substance use disorders linked to opioid painkillers have risen to epidemic
levels nationally, with more
than 14,000
deaths from prescription opioids in 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preve
deaths from prescription opioids in 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
«If everyone's protein intake were at this
level, that would translate to more
than 1.4 million fewer
deaths from stroke each year worldwide, plus a decreased
level of disability from stroke,» said Liu.
Rates of
deaths for all ages are still comparatively high, but they are
leveling off, while rates for the young generation of UK women are lower
than in most other large EU countries.»
Patients with 2 or 3 of the predictors had a sudden cardiac
death risk that was 145 times greater
than patients with normal
levels on all 3 measures.
A new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that
death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5)
than in those with lower
levels of PM2.5.
A new analysis is adding a
level of much - needed detail, and it concludes that more
than twice as many inmates were wrongly convicted and sentenced to
death than have been exonerated and freed.
While the timing and magnitude of declines differed by region in Africa, with central Africa experiencing the worst
levels, all regions of Africa are facing unsustainable
levels of ivory poaching with the killing peak in 2011 equating to more
than 40,000 elephant
deaths.
After 10 days of age, the manipulations reduced the distance flies could climb up tubes and the alterations caused older flies to have signs of neurodegeneration, including higher
than normal
levels of brain cell
death and degradation.
The toxicity of chokeberry extract on normal blood vessel lining cells was tested and found to have no effects up to the highest
levels used (50 ug / ml), suggesting that the cell
death effect is happening in a way other
than through preventing new blood vessel formation (anti-angiogenesis), a process that is important in cancer cell growth.
These genes are more active in the young cave fish
than in their sighted counterparts — an elevated
level of activity that triggers cell
death in the eye's lens.
Using data from the blood assays, the researchers determined that patients with peak troponin T
levels less
than 5 ng / L had only a 0.1 percent risk of
death within 30 days.
By contrast, patients with peak troponin T
levels between 20 and 64 ng / L had three - times the risk of
death within 30 days
than patients with lower troponin T measurements as well as a 3 percent absolute risk of 30 - day mortality.
0.005 ng / ml) was independently associated with subsequent CHD, HF and
death relative to an hs - cTnT
level less
than 0.005 ng / ml at both visits.
H: In men with normal cholesterol
levels, the risk of
death for those between ages 45 and 65 over the course of the next five years is only a fraction of 1 percent lower
than it is for men with high serum cholesterol in the same category.
According to Professor Jun Zhu from the National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance in Sichuan, China, one of the study's lead authors, «Our findings show that since 1970, child
deaths in China have fallen far more quickly
than expected, at the country, province and county
level.
The researchers found much higher
levels of heparanase in childhood brain tumours
than in the normal brain, and furthermore, a molecule that can block this enzyme induces cell
death in medulloblastoma cells in culture, while normal brain cells were not affected.
A prolific researcher up until his
death, Davidson was the author of four graduate -
level plasma physics textbooks and more
than 500 articles.
A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI
levels than at lower BMI
levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the
deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.
Prediabetic, meaning I have higher -
than - normal blood sugar
levels that put me at risk of developing diabetes, the seventh - leading cause of
death in the United States.
One study tracked 800 men for 50 years and showed that the group with the lowest testosterone
levels had a 33 % greater chance of
death from all causes
than the group with the highest testosterone
levels.
In 1975, Rowland Philips compared Seventh - Day Adventists physicians, who do not eat meat, with non-Seventh Day Adventist physicians, and found that the vegetarian doctors had higher rates of gastrointestinal and colon - rectal cancer
deaths.10 National Cancer Institute data show that Argentina, with very high
levels of beef consumption, has significantly lower rates of colon cancer
than other western countries where beef consumption is considerably lower.11 A 1997 study published in the International Journal of Cancer found that increased risk of colon and rectal cancer was positively associated with consumption of bread, cereal dishes, potatoes, cakes, desserts and refined sugars, but not with eggs or meat.12 And a 1978 study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found no greater risk of colon cancer, regardless of the amounts of beef or other meats ingested.13 The study also found that those who ate plenty of cruciferous vegetables, such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts and broccoli, had lower rates of colon cancer.
Truth: The all - cause
death rate is higher in individuals with cholesterol
levels lower
than 180 mg / dl.
Low
levels of physical activity in obese subjects are a better predictor of
death than cholesterol
levels, smoking status or blood pressure.
This is why suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of injury
death, why a full third of employees suffer chronic debilitating stress, and why more
than half of all «millennials» (18 to 33 year olds) experience a
level of stress that keeps them awake at night with insomnia.
You can predict
death more reliably by blood sugar
level than you can by age.
In any case, no study has ever offered direct proof that soy can prevent heart disease and in most of the major studies in which cholesterol
levels were lowered through either diet or drugs, a greater number of
deaths occurred in the treatment groups
than in controls,
deaths from stroke, cancer, intestinal disorders, accidents and suicide.
Truth: The all - cause
death rate is higher in individuals with cholesterol
levels lower
than 180 mg / dl (Circulation 1992 86:3).
He might have added that studies in which cholesterol
levels were lowered through either diet or drugs have consistently resulted in a greater number of
deaths in the treatment groups
than in controls -
deaths from stroke, cancer, intestinal disorders, accident and suicide.
There is no greater risk of heart disease at cholesterol
levels of 300
than at 180, and people with cholesterol
levels below 180 are at greater risk of
death from other causes, such as cancer, intestinal diseases, accidents, violence and suicide.5 In other words, it's much more dangerous to have cholesterol
levels that are too low
than cholesterol
levels that are too high.
If you get a freakishly hot morning and you have 14 miles on the schedule, you're likely to slog it out until it's a
death march, or else push yourself into a higher
level of exertion
than I prescribed.
I would wager to guess that I might actually have a better chance of winning the punch a neighbor out experiment
than I do of getting through a single
level of Dredmor on hardmode with perma -
death.
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